663114 cicada anime short to be screened at Los Angeles Film Festival

This short by Isamu Hirabayashi is about a 66 year old cicada, who fights to shed its skin in order to survive. The short has been highly acclaimed, as it represents a metaphor of the tragedies of Hiroshima and Fukushima. The official synopsis reads:

Every sixty-six years a cicada makes its way out of the earth and climbs up a tree to shed its skin. This is the way it's been since time immemorial. But this time it's different. A Japanese animation film in which an ostensibly resistant insect's monologue draws a parallel between the catastrophes of Hiroshima and Fukushima. The insect poses a fundamental question about the future of our planet. A film that takes different point of view. Short but hard-hitting.